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Originally Posted by ottopilot
Perhaps we would better served by practicing individual accountability and living by example.
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I think you're confused if you think that media literacy doesn't involve individual accountability. As far as I understand it, media literacy is more about understanding that the context in which the media exists is an important component of making appropriate sense of the media's message.
For instance Brian Williams can compare the Obama admin's treatment of Fox News to Nixon's enemy list and it doesn't actually make any fucking sense if you take it at face value: the things the Nixon administration did actually have very little in common with the things the Obama administration is doing. If one was media literate, one could look at it in a different context: Williams is an establishment journalist looking out for other establishment journalists and so is predisposed to defend establishment journalists even at the expense of coherence (and even if he is defending an organization that has taken out whole page ads in national newspapers questioning the integrity of his news organization) . The bullshit the establishment (and alternative) media spews makes a lot more sense if one doesn't take it at face value and instead examines the motivations of the players. This is where media literacy comes in.